Stoddard, Charles Warren (1843-1909)

Charles Warren Stoddard, a member of George Henry Lewes's circle, was a gay American author best known for his writings on Polynesia, where Stoddard found a society more open to his sexuality. Stoddard sent his writings to Herman Melville and Walt Whitman, who Stoddard was especially taken with, and lived with artist Francis Millet in a presumably romantic partnership.

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